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4 Well-Worn Country Hits That Every 1960s Kid Still Knows Today
American Songwriter has published a list highlighting four country songs from the 1960s that remain widely recognisable today, spotlighting how the decade shaped the genre. The piece frames these tracks as enduring standards that listeners who grew up in the 1960s can still recall word for word, underlining their lasting cultural imprint. The selections are…
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Bea Miller Announces New Album ‘Mr. Peaked In High School’
American singer-songwriter Bea Miller has announced her new album, ‘Mr. Peaked In High School’, due for release on 18 September 2026. The alt-pop artist, who recently drew attention with her single ‘depressed on the internet’, describes the record as the best work she has produced to date, marking what she calls a “second wind” in…
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Apple asks court to rule its products don’t infringe Boomcloud 360’s spatial audio patents
Apple has filed a lawsuit asking a US federal court to declare that its iPhones, iPads, AirPods and Beats headphones do not infringe three spatial audio patents held by Boomcloud 360. The complaint, lodged on 5 August in the US District Court for the Southern District of California, comes after Boomcloud filed a series of…
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Babehoven – “Three Reds”
Upstate New York duo Babehoven have released “Three Reds,” a new single from their forthcoming third studio album, I See Them, I See Me. The song follows previously released tracks “Lasagna” and “Blue Around You,” and continues the band’s approach of wrapping weighty themes, in this case mortality and legacy, in light, playful musical settings.…
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“Fell Hard for Mansfield Last Night”: Country Singer Recovers After Nasty Onstage Tumble
Country singer Russell Dickerson took a hard fall off a stage platform while performing his song “She Likes It” at Mansfield Speedway on Saturday, but quickly got back up and continued the show. He shared footage of the tumble on Instagram, turning it into a light-hearted joke rather than dwelling on the mishap. Dickerson set…
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Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong On How His Son Helped Make ‘Nimrods’ Feel “Current,” Potential Of ‘American Idiot’ Movie Musical: “We Talk About It”
Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has spoken about his upcoming film Nimrods, a coming-of-age road movie inspired by the band’s 1997 album of the same name, which premieres on 14 August. Armstrong, who co-wrote the film with director Lee Kirk and appears in it alongside bandmates Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool, said working with…
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Remember This Scathing Dolly Parton Track She Wrote in Response to Tabloid Gossip?
Dolly Parton wrote and released “Shattered Image” in 1976, an unusually sharp response to tabloid gossip about her and her family. The track appeared on her seventeenth studio album, All I Can Do, and stands out from her typically warm public persona as a pointed rebuke to those spreading unfounded rumours, using imagery such as…
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The “most drug-oriented” album David Bowie ever made
“I was totally infuriated with him”. The post The “most drug-oriented” album David Bowie ever made first appeared on Far Out Magazine.
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AI is capable of breaking the music industry. But it does not have to.
An op-ed from MusicInfra CEO Björn Lindvall argues that generative AI’s most pressing threat to the music industry lies not in creativity but in the sector’s ageing infrastructure for tracking royalties and attribution. He warns that the surging volume of AI-generated and AI-assisted music will soon overwhelm systems designed for a simpler era of streams…
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Laura Veirs – “Arc Still Bends”
Singer-songwriter Laura Veirs has released “Arc Still Bends,” a new song ahead of her upcoming solo album Temple Songs, which arrives on 14 August via her own label, Raven Marching Band Records. The track is a wistful meditation on holding onto hope when progress feels distant, and follows previously shared singles “Flying Into Darkness” and…